What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Computational models of human behavior?
Programs that behave (externally) like humans

One thing it could be is "Making computational models of human behavior". Since we believe that humans are intelligent, therefore models of intelligent behavior must be AI. There's a great paper by Turing who really set up this idea of AI as making models of human behavior (link). In this way of thinking of AI, how would you proceed as an AI scientist? One way, which would be a kind of cognitive science, is to do experiments on humans, see how they behave in certain situations and see if you could make computers behave in that same way. Imagine that you wanted to make a program that played poker. Instead of making the best possible poker-playing program, you would make one that played poker like people do.






Usefull book:

Winston, Patrick H. Artificial Intelligence. 3rd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wellsley, 1992. ISBN: 0201533774.

Important Books in AI

1. Artificial Intelligence, 3rd edition by Patrick H. Winston

2.Artificial Intelligence: Modern Approach by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig

3.Neural Networks in Finance and Investing, Revised Second Edition

4. Machine Learning, by Tom Mitchell